Married Life

Married life is good. Not just for the reasons most of you are thinking that I am referring to. But I really enjoy living here so far. I enjoy eating meals with Jay all the time, and waking up next to him. And I have had a few comments about being on MSN only 2 days after the wedding. Well this may come as a surprise to some, but we don't spend all day in bed together :P There are other things that we need to get done, hehe! Like today we opened gifts. What a great haul! We only have a couple of duplicates to return! Not bad at all!

It was such a perfect day Saturday. I don't think there is anything else that could have made it any better. Well maybe less wind outside, but I think that was the least of my worries :P I wasn't nervous until just before I walked down the aisle. And I made a comment to my dad that I felt gassy. Just to keep the mood light because him and I are both very emotional and I didn't want to be crying during the whole service. Then when we were walking down the aisle he leaned over and whispered that I shouldn't pass any gas. We had a chuckle and I was feeling pretty strong and just plain happy until it came time to read my vows. Then I cried a little. Not too much crying though. Too happy to cry :)

We will have a pile of pictures within the next short while, and we plan on posting them on Jay's website in the near future. If any of you got some good pics, feel free to pass them on our way! We'd love to see them!

Wedding Day is here!

The lyrics of a song that I can't quite put a finger on are coming to me right now at 6am on my wedding day...."I'm so tired, but I can't sleep, standing on the edge of something so deep...." My mind is just kind of all jumbled up. I woke up at 445am today, and tossed and turned for an hour before I decided to get up and turn this computer on, see if anyone was on MSN, hehe, yeah right! I didn't get to sleep last night until at least midnight, so I am running on a little less than 5 hours sleep. I know that today will be very full of adrenaline and second winds (hopefully not related to the cheese on the pizza last night...hahahaha), so I am counting on that to carry me through. I was thinking when I was trying to go back to sleep that maybe I will get a booster juice to suck on while I am getting my hair done. One with an energy booster in it....maybe it'll work. Or maybe coffee would do the trick. I just don't want to dehydrate myself, or have to pee any more than I have to once I am in my dress. My mind gets so crazy when I am excited and I can't sleep. I just think about everything. I don't think about things I have to do, I just go over the previous day, or think of what it will be like to actually walk down the aisle with all those people's eyes on me. I think my eyes will be glued to my sweetheart's eyes. I sure hope I don't cry. I am sure I will to an extent, I just don't wanna be blubbering during my vows :P I'm hungry.....wow, I could go for some cold pizza right now, but we sent it home with Jay. That's cool tho, cause I shouldn't eat any more cheese :P Maybe I'll go see if I can sleep for at least another hour or so.....cause it's gonna be a super duper long day!!! Yay for adrenaline!! :)

So close!

I'm getting married the day after tomorrow! Hehe! I had a bit of a stressful morning yesterday, just concerned about moving and people not being able to make it for the wedding. But after a gentle reminder from Karen, not to stress about things that I cannot control, and a surprise bridal luncheon with the people from work, my day started to look a little bit sunnier. My client cancelled in the afternoon, so around 3pm, dad, future dad-in-law, Jay and myself moved my stuff over to Jay's place. It took a lot longer than I expected to find places for all of it. We were pretty much on the go from that time until 10pm (with a supper break, for some yummy fried perch...and I don't even like fish....)but we did manage to get it all put away!

After sleeping like a log last night, I went to treat myself this morning to my birthday presents from my parents and my sister. A manicure and a pedicure at Sunsera. I have had a pedicure there before, and I found it rather enjoyable. I have never had a manicure before. Now, the room that they have there for esthetics is pretty nice. Nice tile floor, decorated with Ikea furniture, very calming atmosphere. Except for the fact that it was absoultely FREEZING in there! After spending over 2 hours in that room with no socks or shoes on, I was absolutely chilled. The manicure was painful because I don't look after my cuticles, and they were quite overgrown. But she was a little over agressive and actually made me bleed :( Then she put the colour on, and after sitting there for 20 minutes I was told it was dry and that I could go. Well I put on my socks and smudged the polish. Then I went to pay and smudged it some more when I dug in my purse. I was not really impressed, but maybe I will just go with something a little more natural. Considering I never wear nailpolish anyways :P Then I was driving over to Jay's to leave my car there, and I went down an alley to get to a road that had a set of lights so I could turn left on 22nd st. So I went down this alley and it was fairly snowey, but there were tracks in it. But when I tried to stop as I approached the road (maybe going 10km/hr) I had NO traction. Like usually when you slide there is some traction. It was probably one of the scariest moments I have had. Sliding under momentum's power with nothing I could do but a little steering. Luckily by the time I slid onto the street, the bus had moved that I would have ran into, and the van behind the bus saw me and stopped to let me slide on thru. I managed to get some traction on the road and turned. But that was so scary....wow! I think I will be glad to not have to do much driving in the next couple of days!

So far we have had 3 couples call in the last couple of days to let us know that they can't make it. Hopefully we won't have too many of those!! But if we do, I guess we will all just have to fill ourselves up with 2 times the food :P hehe!

Movin' movin' movin'...

So I have had an eventful day. After waking up this morning to a sheet of ice half an inch thick on my car (that took dad AND I 30 minutes to chip off the windows), I went to work and had a massage. Then I went and exchanged a couple of items I got from my lingerie shower cause they didn't fit. I ended up getting something super pretty and sexy, hehe, can't wait to try them out :) Then today I had to go for my final dress fitting. That went just fine, the dress fits, and I will pick it up on Friday morning. But as I was crossing the street to go back to the mall I wiped out. I was right in the middle of the road, and for some reason it didnt hurt, but I just got back up and kept on moving.

Then home I came to work on packing some more. I have most of my clothes packed into a gigantic suitcase. I am borrowing another giant suit case from my sister, so maybe I can get all the rest of my clothes in there. Tomorrow I am moving for the first time since I was 5 years old. I know that I am not OFFICIALLY moving in until Saturday night, but I would say that 90% of my stuff is being moved into Jay's place tomorrow! Oooh, so exciting! I can't wait to get married in 4 days! Woohoo!

Ramblings

I have always known that there are different views expressed by nonChristians, than Christians on the topic of marriage. Why wouldn't there be? I realize that some nonChristians do save sex for marriage, and some even want to get married in a church with a religious ceremony even though they do not practice Christianity on a day to day basis. But why do people feel the need to ask both Jay and myself if we are 'sure we want to go thru with it?' or 'do you have cold feet?' or 'are you scared??'. I realize that marriage is a HUGE lifetime commitment, but coming from people who are already married, it makes me wonder what their marriages are like!? And what about the guy at our little party that Jay's condo people put on for us who offered me his condolences?? I realize he was just joking, but is it supposed to be funny? I dunno....seems too serious to joke around about. Then there are the people who wonder if Jay and I will be going to the party at mom and dad's after the wedding. It will be a smokey boozey party. Now even if it wasn't my wedding night, I don't think I would have any desire to go to that party :P The world seems to look at marriage as a life sentence in some sort of prison. Like you are signing away your rights as a human being, to have a ball and chain locked to your ankle for the rest of your life. I was at Michael's a few times during our wedding planning to pick up some things, and I was looking at some cake toppers they had, and one was of a bride holding onto the neck of the grooms shirt as he tried to run away. Now is this supposed to be funny? I am so incredibly happy and full of optimism about my future with Jason. Marriage is a blessing, and something I look forward to tremendously! Just some ramblings....

Princess Angie

I don't often spend money on doing things to pamper myself. A few weeks ago, I decided that I would get my hair coloured and trial styled for the wedding. So today I did that. I spent about 3.5 hours at the salon, but it was fun. I have never got professional colour done before. I really like it. I know it costs an arm and a leg, but I would like to keep it up. I just love my updo. I am getting a vision of myself in my dress, with this hair style and my makeup done. I am going to look like a princess :) So excited!!

Happy New Year!

So it's 2005. It doesn't seem like 5 years ago that the big Y2K 'scare' was on. I remember that new year's eve. It was spent at a hotel in downtown Saskatoon with a bunch of friends. It was a fairly good night. One thing I do remember is that right around midnight, we were watching a movie, and someone accidentally sat on the remote and it turned the tv off....we thot Y2K had hit the tv. Weird how you remember silly stuff like that.

New Year's eve this year was spent quietly at Jason's. We watched the first half of Lord of the Rings Return of the King. I do really like that movie. I think it's my favorite of the movies. When it comes to the books, I would have to say that the Two Towers was my favorite. That was about all we did. Other than hanging out and talking a lot. I sure do enjoy just talking to him. I hope we don't run out of things to talk about once we ar married ;)

So it has really hit us in the last couple of days that the wedding is soon. All day on Saturday Jay and I would look at eachother and say "we are getting married in THREE weeks! eeek! yay!" It is a good thing. I just seems so soon all of a sudden. I am managing to get the little things done that need to be done. Today I went out and bought a whack load of candles from the dollar store for our centerpieces and whatnot. I also went to Superstore, and to my delight found that they had after eight mints (individually wrapped) on sale in the bulk bin for 49cents/100g. My first option was Lindt chocolates but they were $2.63/100g, and I didn't wanna spend that much. So I got about 300 of those mints for $12! Not bad if you ask me! Tomorrow Jay and I are meeting with Leyton to figure out our ceremony, and when the rehearsal will be. Then we can FINALLY let people know when we need them on Friday the 21st. I think that I will feel a lot better once we get that stuff sorted out!!

Tomorrow is my 24th birthday! Oooh la la! I was just telling Jay last night how much I enjoy my birthday. I always have. I never feel depressed that I am a year older, I always feel that is a time to celebrate. I think that I have always enjoyed it because it kind of falls within that 'let down' time that comes after Christmas. But I always have my birthday to look forward to during that time. Jay and I are celebrating my birthday tonite cause he is busy tomorrow night. He is cooking me steak mmmm and we are going to see a movie. I am not totally sure which one I wanna see yet, cause it's up to me ;) I am thinking Ocean's 12.